helmstudio

helmstudio is a system for running open-weight video, image, and speech models on a user's own machine. It installs, runs, and switches between studios, each of which is a repository that wraps an open model. The system keeps what every studio makes in one gallery, with provenance. According to the website, "helmstudio installs, runs and switches between studios — each one a repository that wraps an open model — and keeps what every studio makes in one gallery, with where it came from." It is pre-release, with the helm CLI, packages, and an unsigned Mac app available on the releases page. The launcher can also run from a clone. helmstudio runs studios behind a web page of their own, installs a studio from a manifest, fetches its weights, runs its processes, and keeps one heavy model in memory at a time. It gives every studio the same storage, gallery, and timeline. The documentation states: "helmstudio runs studios : repositories that each wrap an open-weight model — video, image or speech — behind a web page of their own. It installs a studio from a manifest, fetches its weights, runs its processes, keeps one heavy model in memory at a time, and gives every studio the same storage, gallery and timeline, so what one makes is there for the next." Everything runs on the user's Mac, and a model only runs inside a studio. The only outbound calls are the ones the user asks for. The system is open source under the MIT licence.